Houthis vow to continue attacking Israel despite strikes on Yemen
Watch: Israeli strikes hit Yemen airport and power station
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told the BBC that the Houthis would "escalate our military targeting of Israel" until it stopped what he described as "the genocide in Gaza".
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes struck the international airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and ports and power stations on the Red Sea coast, killing at least four people.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that its response to more than a year of missile and drone attacks by the Iran-backed group was "just getting started".
Overnight, the Houthis launched another ballistic missile at Israel, which the Israeli military said was intercepted before it reached Israeli territory.
The UN's secretary general said he was "gravely concerned" by the intensified escalation.
He also called the strikes on the airport and ports "especially alarming" and warned that they posed "grave risks to humanitarian operations" in the war-torn country.
The Houthis, who control north-western Yemen, began attacking Israel and international shipping shortly after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in October 2023.
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27rnjg3qvo
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